RE: cygutils cygstart eats program arguments

["Dave Korn" <dk at artimi dot com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Robert Schmidt
> Sent: 25 October 2004 22:56

> Mark Paulus wrote:
> > Have you tried using a -- to indicate end of arguments
> > to cygstart:
> > 
> > cygstart -- tail --version
> > 
> 
> Thanks!  No, I hadn't, and that works great.
> 
> I still find the usage syntax to be misleading though:
> Usage: cygstart [OPTION]... FILE [ARGUMENTS]
> 
> What are ARGUMENTS if not to be passed to the execution of 
> FILE?  (For 
> people relatively new to the nuances of cygwin/Linux (like 
> myself), '--' 
> is a pretty obscure feature.)

  Consider the question of how one would grep for the string "--version" in a
file.....

    cheers, 
      DaveK
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